confused about v7 or v8

[fcarboneras]

Hello together,

i would like to use deployer for my laravel application, but i'm confused.
The latest github release is 7.5.8 and also the packagist and docker image are still at 7.x
There is only one blog post about v8 and that it is stil in alpha.

but when i'm opening the homepage, the documentation is set directly to v8. When i'm changing to v7.x this message apears :

This is documentation for Deployer 7.x, which is no longer actively maintained.
For up-to-date documentation, see the latest version (8.x).

so which is the stable version at this time, i would think 7.x but the documentation is set to 8.x without a information that it is a alpha version, and at 7.x it says that the version is no longer maintained but there are still commits to main in the last weeks.

so which should i use ?

[antonmedv]

Since I used to work at Google, I’m used to Google habits. They have a saying: there are always two paths – the new, cool one that’s not finished yet, and the old, deprecated one. And you have to choose which one you want to use.

But in reality, yes, the v7 is now only supported with small bug fixes and security patches. All the new features, improvements, and ideas are being added to the v8. However, there’s no agreement on backward compatibility in the v8 yet, and it might break something during the upgrades or introduction of new ideas, although I’ll try to avoid that as much as possible.